Crowd Around the Brazier – A Christmas Carol, Dickens – Charcoal Drawing

A Christmas Carol by Dickens: Charcoal drawing — Crowd Around the Brazier by Mario Jodra, from the illustrated edition of Edelvives. Dated and signed by hand.

This drawing depicts a crowd of workers, men and boys gathered around a large brazier to keep warm on a cold and foggy London street. Dickens describes a main street in London shrouded in fog and intense cold, where workers repairing the gas-pipes have lit a great brazier around which ragged men and boys gather to warm themselves. The scene belongs to Stave One of A Christmas Carol and portrays one of the passages devoted to everyday life in the streets of London during Christmas.

This original charcoal drawing is part of the illustrated edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, a project that began after Mario Jodra was awarded the 5th Edelvives International Illustration Prize. Following this recognition, Edelvives commissioned him to create the illustrations for its new edition of the book, published in 2025 with a translation by Alejandro Tobar. The edition offers a new visual, expressive and socially engaged interpretation of Dickens’s characters and settings, with particular attention to social contrasts and Ebenezer Scrooge’s inner transformation. Original artwork, signed by hand, accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and available directly from the artist’s studio.

DETAILS

Artist:
Mario Jodra

Title of work:
Crowd Around the Brazier (A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Edelvives)

Techniques & Materials:
Charcoal

Support:
Bouffant paper 90g

Dimensions:
29,7 x 42 cm

Location & Year created:
Madrid. 2024

Signed by hand.

Certificates of Authenticity.